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Shelly's practice has many branches, from intricate small drawings and paintings, to large abstract works and soft sewn sculptures. She is interested in how figuration and abstraction can occupy the same space, and how combining images together can create alternative views of the same thing. She is currently exploring themes of the idealised childhood, nostalgia and memory, and how these ideas are communicated by expectations of an image. Also how narrative themes connect themselves to figurative images. Shelly appropriates found photographs, particularly those portraying children, then through intricate drawing recreates an alternative sense of reality/history for the images. With a keen interest in children's illustration she also makes both large and small scale paintings which might exist in children's story books, but with a sense of unease attached to them. Her practice could best be described as a fusion of appropriation and alteration.